formerly

former lovers

former lover’s children

formerly

a child

for a little while

a youth undone

a heart undone

and

rebuilt

formerly a teacher

formerly a wife

formerly

forgotten.

8/30/2018  AAW

you doubt in silence

you doubt in silence

what I recognize with roar.

I wait and fill.

you cover everything with more

and more.

the trees remain the same.

the sky also.

the children grumble from their corners.

the birds just take their food

and go.

you doubt in silence

what I need in exclamation.

there will be no degradation

of matter.

there will be no manipulation

of regularity.

there will be no repeated injection

and extraction.

we will just exist.

simply.

undefined.

unmeasured.

08/24/2018  AAW

my return

A thousand whales

bellowing

for my return

to the place

from which I came.

I dreamed

it was my time

to die.

8/7/2018  AAW